Vol. 27, No. 38
Author and environmentalist Patricia DeMarco offers Pathways to Our Sustainable Future
“If you can find things that work in a place like this, you can help people see a way forward.”
By Bill O'Driscoll
Can socialist ideals gain support in Pittsburgh?
“If people look into their family trees, they might realize they have been a socialist all along.”
By Ryan Deto
Proposed legislation could increase protections for victims of domestic violence
“Guns and domestic violence are a deadly combination, and the current law is just not enough.”
By Rebecca Addison
Old-time South Siders recall the community-building legacy of Charlie Samaha
“He really was the unofficial mayor of South Side.”
Pittsburgh City Paper Booze Battles: Cure vs. Umami
How does the Bamboo cocktail fare?
By Celine Roberts
Sparkling Traditional Mead, Laurel Highlands Meadery
$15/750ml
A homebrewer fulfills his dream at Eleventh Hour Brewing
“I brew what I like to drink — which is pretty much everything.”
By Drew Cranisky
Liam’s Fish, Wings, & Things offers Southern-fried food in Wilkinsburg
A simple but varied menu includes chicken wings, frog legs and fried green tomatoes
By Angelique Bamberg and Jason Roth
412 Food Rescue spawns 724 Food Rescue
Food-saving initiative begins in five surrounding counties
Sazerac
It is a cocktail of immeasurable beauty
By Sean Enright
Saigon to Pittsburgh: the queen of bánh mì
Lucy Sheets does business with insight and a smile
A Conversation with Osama Alomar
The City of Asylum writer-in-residence from Syria on style, substance and not being understood
By Stuart Sheppard
Scott Silsbee’s poetry collection Muskrat Friday Dinner
The booziness feels cultivated as carefree philosophical stance
By Fred Shaw
Friend
By Daniela Buccilli
Tei Shi makes introspective pop from the ground up
“It’s an assertive, powerful thing to perform.”
By Meg Fair
Ana Popović, a different kind of blues guitarist, plays Jergel’s Rhythm Grille
“I have a perfect excuse to be different, because I was not born in the Delta.”
By Bill Kopp
The Me Toos and the Spectres debut their split release at James Street, Sept. 23
“They were pretty adamant about recording everything live.”
By Mike Shanley
New Local Releases: Aaron Myers-Brooks' Conduits
By Justin Vellucci
New Local Releases: Outsideinside's Sniff a Hot Rock
Thursday Critics' Picks: Son Little at Club Cafe; Lucky Tubb at Hard Rock
By Hannah Lynn
Critics' Pick: Digable Planets at August Wilson Center
Critics' Pick: Paul Cauthen at Stage AE
Critics' Pick: Charly Bliss at Cattivo
Pittsburgh premieres of two notable plays
City Theatre moves ahead without Tracy Brigden and with A Funny Thing …; Little Lake opens Middletown
By Bill O'Driscoll and Amanda Reed
The Battle of Homestead Foundation’s The Homestead Strike of 1892
The actors are multi-cast in many roles on various sides of the conflict
By Michelle Pilecki
In the Company of Ghosts at New Hazlett Theater
“I find that these ghosts take over and represent me in a new identity in the world.”
By Steve Sucato
mother!
Darren Aronofsky’s psychological thriller is surreal, gross, darkly funny and stuffed with allegories
By Al Hoff
Stronger
David Gordon Green’s bio-pic is mostly about PTSD, and developing the skills to deal with it
Brad’s Status
Mike White’s low-key comedy is amusing if you can take another tale of a self-absorbed, mildly neurotic middle-aged man
Turn It Around: The Story of East Bay Punk
A new documentary chronicles the decades of a DIY community, plus Green Day
The real fantasy-football game is pretending that the NFL doesn’t have major character flaws
I love the game of football. I’m just not crazy about the NFL or some of the people playing it.
By Charlie Deitch
This week in Pittsburgh Sports History
A look back at events that you’ve either forgotten about or never heard of in the first place
Savage Love
If you truly make your husband miserable, he should leave you.
By Dan Savage
Lynn Cullen Live - 9/26/17
Audio & Video Archive
Lynn Cullen Live - 9/18/17
Lynn Cullen Live - 9/20/17
Lynn Cullen Live - 9/22/17
Lynn Cullen Live - 9/25/17
CP Podcast: Can a fantasy football team of only "morally upstanding" players hold its own?
"No Patriots."
By Ryan Deto and Rebecca Addison
Short List: Sept 21-28
Art by LaToya Ruby Frazier and Sandra Gould Ford; Ian Cheng’s digital simulation at the Carnegie; Downtown Gallery Crawl; free stuff at RADical Days
By CP Staff
By Mars Johnson
Transit Talk: Give us a water taxi, you cowards
By Colin Williams
Artists of color say Pittsburgh has "perfected racism." What would real progress look like?
Third Space Bakery is more than a place to get treats
By Grace Delallo
Meet the local writers driving Pittsburgh’s literary publishing renaissance
By Jess Simms
